Building Japan 1868-1876
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Building Japan 1868-1876
Routledge, 2016, c1991
- : pbk
Available at 1 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Personal account of one of the Westerners who helped build modern Japan (see also study by Pedlar - also available from Curzon Press).
Table of Contents
- One: My Appointment to Japan
- Two: The First Telegraph in Japan
- Three: Laying out a New Settlement
- Four: Water and Light
- Five: Building Iron Bridges
- Six: Osaka: An Interned City
- Seven: Taming the Rivers
- Eight: The Gold Mines of Sado 1
- Nine: The Pioneer Railway in the Far East
- Ten: Maps, 1 Surveys and Engineering Education
- Eleven: The New Coinage
- Twelve: The Great Fire in Tokio
- Thirteen: The Craze for Steamers
- Fourteen: Location of the Lighthouses
- Fifteen: In the Historic Port of Nagasaki 1
- Sixteen: Buying a Lighthouse Tender
- Seventeen: My Visit to Satsuma
- Eighteen: The American Warship Oneida
- Nineteen: The Purchase of the Thabor
- Twenty: The Jealous Japanese
- Twenty-One: The Dockyard at Yokosuka
- Twenty-Two: The Expedition to Formosa
- Twenty-Three: Vicissitudes
- Twenty-Four: Necessity, the Mother of Invention
- Twenty-Five: Building Ships
- Twenty-Six: Audience of the Emperor
- Twenty-Seven: The Great Embassy to the Treaty Powers
- Twenty-Eight: Home Again with the Japanese in England
- Twenty-Nine: Japanese Petroleum
- Thirty: Women's Education in Japan
- Thirty-One: The Japanese in Bad Temper
- Thirty-Two: The Yokohama Harbour Scheme
- Thirty-Three: Maintaining Discipline
- Thirty-Four: Keeping up the Standard
- Thirty-Five: The Riu Kiu Islands
- Thirty-Six: Personal Judgements
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